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Blogging about R Audio recording of this talk is on: R-statistics.com R-statistics.com (tal.galili@gmail.com) Tal Galili [1] [1] Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Talk outline Why? Benefits

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Blogging about R

Audio recording of this talk is on: R-statistics.com Tal Galili[1]

[1] Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

R-statistics.com (tal.galili@gmail.com)

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  • Why?
  • Benefits
  • Starting

Talk outline

  • Starting
  • Writing
  • Promoting
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~100 R bloggers

list/

  • bloggers.com/blogs
  • http://www.r
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# Posts per month

Post types:

  • News
  • Tutorials
  • Tutorials
  • Code snippets
  • Case study’s
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~100 R bloggers

> 2000 readers

~100 R bloggers

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R blogging R blogging

is big

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Why do bloggers do it?

  • Writing is gratifying
  • Readers appreciation is motivating
  • Trust worthy online identity
  • Trust worthy online identity

(“connections”)

  • Audience (“Conversion” ?)
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What does the community gain?

  • Quality content
  • More connections
  • More connections

(faster communication)

  • Increased visibility to R-project

(on google/media)

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How to:

Start blogging Start blogging

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Where to Blog ?

WordPress

http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogger-wordpress-chart.html

WordPress VS blogger (blogspot)

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Wordpress.com

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Open new blog

http://wordpress.com

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http://wordpress.com

Open new blog

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Open new blog

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Open new blog

Remember: press the activation link in your e-mail box

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Layout

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Layout

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Layout

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Layout

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Layout

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Setup

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Setup

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Setup

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Setup

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Setup

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Setup

Set your comments free!

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Setup

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Setup

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Setup

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Setup: recommended widgets

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Manage: change design

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Manage Manage: change design

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Setup: Edit your “about” page

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Manage: you can map a domain for 10$/year

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How to:

Write your blog Write your blog

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Write: Edit/create posts

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Write: Edit posts (add text images and more)

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Write: add image to post

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Write: Schedule post (and more)

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Embed video

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Embed video

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http://slideshare.net/

Embed presentatin

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Embed HUGE images

http://seadragon.com/

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Write: interactive graphics - animation

This morning: Yihui Xie

“animation” package - for animation gif

Yihui Xie Creating Animations with R

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Write: interactive graphics (one day)

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Write: interactive graphics

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Add R code : .r files?

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Add R code

  • Sharing code/files

https://www.dropbox.com/

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Add R code : syntax highlighting

From: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

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Add R code: syntax highlighting

For self hosted wordpress: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/02/r-syntax- highlight-on-your-blog-a-wordpress-plugin/

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Manage: categories

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Manage: tags

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Usage: comments

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How to blog

  • Time - Post regularly
  • Quality
  • Keep it simple
  • Give context (“package updates”)
  • Avoid Typos
  • Avoid Typos
  • Connect
  • Link out
  • Conversation
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How to:

Promote your blog Promote your blog

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Think off-line

  • Tell friends (face to face / phone)
  • Business cards
  • In your presentations
  • Conference badge
  • Conference badge
  • Sign on office door
  • URL in package help files?
  • Street signs (maybe not)
  • …?
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Tell your (online) “friends”

  • E-mails
  • mass e-mail (with caution!)
  • signature
  • Twitter
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • status updates
  • share button
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Tell the woRld: tags

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Tell the woRld: reddit.com/

Statistics ,machinelearning , visualization ,programming

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Tell the woRld : Hackers news

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Tell the woRld : Twitter (#rstats / #user2010)

p.s: there is a twitter package … (with a talk by Drew?)

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Tell the woRld : directories

http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Statistics/Software/S/R/

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Tell the woRld : Wiki’s

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/R_Programming

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Tell the woRld : help list/ forums

R mailing list

http://stats.stackexchange.com/ http://metaoptimize.com/qa/ (maybe) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r

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Tell the woRld : R-bloggers.com

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Tell the woRld : R-bloggers.com

(Because the world has too many Pirate bloggers!)

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Collaborate!

Share readers to get readers

  • Link to other bloggers
  • Guest posts
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Update your readers

  • E-mail subscription
  • RSS subscription
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Update your readers

  • Facebook fan page subscription
  • Create a page for your blog
  • Add your blog’s feed in the facebook

page “notes”

  • Add the fan page widget to your

sidebar

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Update your readers

Twitter + facebook status updates of new blog posts new blog posts

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Twitter (#rstats) -> feedburner

http://feedburner.com

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Twitter -> facebook

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“SEO”

Search engine optimization Search engine optimization

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“SEO” - Help google searchers

  • Titles – simple and descriptive
  • Find words for posts –
  • Google keywords tool
  • Google suggest (R code*)
  • Google suggest (R code*)

* http://www.r-chart.com/2010/07/what-search-engines-think-people-want.html

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Measure yourself: site analytics

The best blog I know on webanalytics: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/

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Measure yourself: google alerts

http://www.google.com/alerts

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Help:

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Help:

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Help:

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/

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blog ? project.org/

  • http://www.r
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Follow/Contact me: R-statistics.com (tal.galili@gmail.com)

Thank you !

Tal Galili[1]

[1] Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel.